A cargo plane crashed off the coast of Bangladesh yesterday killing three Ukrainian crew members and critically injuring one more, officials said. The plane went down in the Bay of Bengal minutes after taking off from the southeastern resort town of Cox's Bazar, killing three of the four crew on board.

A team of Bangladesh navy and coastguard ships and patrol aircraft recovered the bodies and took the injured man to hospital. The An-26 is a Ukrainian twin-engined turboprop aircraft that is used worldwide to transport both military and civilian cargo.